UK’s ECO delays changes to nine open general export licences

The UK’s Export Control Organisation (‘ECO’) has published a Notice to Exporters announcing that its updates or amends to nine open general export licences (‘OGELs’) are delayed. The planned changes outlined in Notice to Exporters 2017/27 align UK export policy with an updated EU dual-use export control list, which reflects changes agreed in 2016 with international non-proliferation regimes, in particular the Wassenaar Arrangement. The changes in Annex 1 to regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of the EU dual-use control list were due to be published on 26 November.  A further Notice to Exporters giving notice of changes to the OGELs will be issued as soon as the EU update is published.

The amended or updated OGELs concern:

• export after exhibition: dual-use items
• export after repair/replacement under warranty: dual-use items
• export for repair/replacement under warranty: dual-use items
• dual-use items: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• low value shipments
• oil and gas exploration: dual-use items
• technology for dual-use items
• Turkey
• cryptographic development

Notice to Exporters 2017/28 can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notice-to-exporters-201728-updates-to-nine-open-licences-delayed/notice-to-exporters-201728-updates-to-nine-open-licences-delayed

Notice to Exporters 2017/27 can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notice-to-exporters-201727-nine-open-licences-amended

The 2017 update on the EU control list of dual-use items can be found here:
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2017/october/tradoc_156134.pdf